Sentences with phrase «heard of carbon footprints»

You've all heard of carbon footprints, right?

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«We often hear of how we must reduce our carbon footprint.

In the play we hear nothing of the real climate scientists who have had to upgrade their home security and change their children's bus routes, or the young woman who after speaking about carbon footprints at her local library emerged to find her car smeared with excrement spelling out «climate turd».

I hear you have one of the worlds largest carbon footprints.

Of the reasons you may commonly hear for eating vegetarian, or at least minimizing your meat consumption, you may be most familiar with those tinged with guilt, frustration or sadness: lower your carbon footprint because the planet is melting, or eating meat supports the intense abuses against animals raised in factory farms.

My experience has been quite otherwise: over the years I've gradually, as circumstances permitted, adopted a lifestyle quite different from the mainstream, one that also (and initially by coincidence, as I'd not really heard of global warming then) gives me a considerably lower than average carbon footprint.

Mike of Chicago says that when he hears the phrase «carbon footprint,» «I envision microscopic impressions on the surface of the earth where an atom of carbon forgot to wear its shoes.»

The snail, a symbol of nature created from recycled, artificial material, with a minimal carbon footprint, were chosen to convey three metaphors: the first relates to the critter carrying its home on its back, the second connects to hearing, since the spiral looks similar to the human ear, and the last refers to technology, with the symbol» @» (called a «snail» in Italian) ubiquitous in email communication.

Not holding an oral in - person hearing also can represent a significant reduction in the carbon footprint of a proceeding.